discussion Is the fantasy genre overused in porn games?

[yesplznothxkk]

Most tropes are kinda worn out by now, the trick to a succesful game is either finding a very niche trope to exploit or to simply cherry pick and mix to your hearts content and mix it together well (Eternum for instance).

Originality is a very rare commodity, and once you've played enough games a ton of stuff become predictable.

 

[korochan48]

Sci-Fi is a type of fantasy. To differentiate we recognize it as Sci-Fi if things in it are explainable in science but in a fiction way then the fantasy just hard explains it's because of magic. Fantasy have magics which can be explain with magics and Sci-Fi deals with magic/techs/machines explainable by science.

Back to topic there are only few to none fantasy settings that are good in avn/renpy mostly fantasy are in rpgm but I dont like rpgm.

 

[MattShizzle]

Sci-Fi is a type of fantasy. To differentiate we recognize it as Sci-Fi if things in it are explainable in science but in a fiction way then the fantasy just hard explains it's because of magic. Fantasy have magics which can be explain with magics and Sci-Fi deals with magic/techs/machines explainable by science.

Back to topic there are only few to none fantasy settings that are good in avn/renpy mostly fantasy are in rpgm but I dont like rpgm.

Yeah, besides not liking fantasy in adult games, RPGmaker sucks donkey balls. Besides being a shitty system, it's apparently easier to use, so crappy devs are more likely to use it.

 

[RickS]

I can't get enugh of fantasy and sci-fi. Started with LotR, StarWars, StarTrek, Asimov...
Now if a game has those elements with at least ok settings and lore I will more often than not like it

 

[Pepepepepe]

Is it overused - yes
Can i get enough - no

 

[Rocolto]

Is it overused - yes
Can i get enough - no

I agree with you

 

[ayylmao13]

personally i prefer realistic settings for lewd games

 

[Unknownadd]

Fictional settings are just easier to write for as you do all the world building yourself. Why does that work that way? Because you say so.
The only difference between the different settings is how you hand wave it.
Realistic settings take a bit more work because you have to explain it in some way to not break the illusion that you're making it all up.
Personally I don't care about the setting as long as some effort was made in the writing.

Why are there catgirls in a fantasy setting? Because there is a nation of beastmen across the border.
Why are there catgirls in a science fiction setting? Because furries exist and a corpo capitalized on gene splicing technology for consumer grade animal cosmetic mods.
Why are there catgirls in a space setting? Because there was a race call the Furrians on a distant planet we made contact with.
Why are there catgirls in a realistic setting? Dude, you be tripping on LSD that's your pet cat you're trying to bang...

 

[osiris789]

I will say a good Fantasy game can generally beat out most realistic games but I feel like you have to be a coherent story teller for that to really take off. Otherwise its just uninteresting

 

[Bobjock67]

I feel its under used.

 

[Rebarr]

Like fantasy but not crazy

 

[kakuei]

Anything is overused. Unless we can come up with a completely new settings, everything is just gonna be a reiteration of some previous stuff.

 

[aardz]

Anything is overused. Unless we can come up with a completely new settings, everything is just gonna be a reiteration of some previous stuff.

Well not all settings are equally represented.
I haven't steampunk used much for example.

 

[MattShizzle]

Only like modern & at least semi-realistic. No fantasy, no SF, etc.

 

[darkseasailor2000@gm]

maybe they should try a real world style RPG set in modern times and see how the player would survive

 

[kakuei]

Well not all settings are equally represented.
I haven't steampunk used much for example.

Detective Girl of the Steam City, Erina and the City of Machines, Bangerlands 3, High Pressure, etc. But I do see your point. Though the term overused is pretty subjective imo. For example you can play 4 games of the same genre and feel like you've had enough of the genre and feel that it's overused.

 

[sg-2]

I think fantasy is just easier to use for porn settings as it's easier to hand wave things being different. Other genres that use more modern setting can make people more easily think about the disconnect between how things play out and how they would go in reality.

 

[User_101810]

Fantasy and DAZ renders don't mesh well. The ubiquitous horned, winged succubus-type grinds my gears

 

[Aslatra]

Ehhh, depends on what you're into, arguably, and how much media you want to consume. I think a significant number of fantasy games can just be outright skipped due to that just being a low-bar-to-entry sort of thing with base RPGM coming with fantasy templates, and I think once you take those out of consideration, there's probably more bog-standard modern realistic titles than medieval fantasy.

 

[Hexborn_Magus]

It certainly can seem like it at times, but fantasy settings work for a lot of adult game flavors.